<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Former Chief Minister of Tripura, Biplab Kumar Deb today received a grand welcome at Agartala's Maharaja Bir Bikram airport on his maiden visit to the city after being named as the party nominee from the Tripura West Lok Sabha constituency.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">BJP supporters and Deb's followers greeted him with flower bouquets.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Later addressing a press conference at the state party office, Mr. Deb said that he got the identity as chief minister, Rajya Sabha MP and now being named as the nominee of the party from the Tripura West Lok Sabha constituency is all because of the people of the state.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">He said when he came to the state in 2015, BJP had a small team with no MLA, let alone big leaders. However, he said that he was lucky for being blessed by the people of the state to form the government in 2018.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Making an emotional appeal, he expressed hope that the people of the state will once again vote him to emerge victorious from his parliamentary seat.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">He expressed gratitude to senior BJP leader and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for giving him an opportunity to contest from Tripura West LS seat.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Mr. Deb, who is presently a Rajya Sabha member, emphasized the importance of his supporters as the main source of strength for him.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">The BJP has replaced Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, Pratima Bhowmik, who is currently the sitting MP from Tripura West seat.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Tripura has two Lok Sabha seats – East Tripura and West Tripura, and both are in control of the Bharatiya Janata Party.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">The BJP is yet to announce its candidate for the schedule tribe reserved East Tripura constituency from where Rebati Tripura is the sitting MP.</span></p>